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something on the board isn't right, if its not getting power to the pin. its probably not the port, and trying to solder a new port is as likely to delaminate the board as it is to fix the issue, if it were even the port that malfunctioned. Too many possibilities to speculate the true issue...

Do you have access to a voltmeter? You can power on the pc and check the pins for voltage, you should be able to figure out which pins are which by fan wire color.. usually black is gnd and red would be 3,5,8 or 12V, depends on the fan / mobo. If your getting voltage there, its a bad fan. No...

have you inspected the plug where the fan connects to the mobo? is it secure? How many wires does the fan use, and how many pins is the connector? It could be you got a fan with a different pin out than the Mobo so the power wire or control wire (if there is one) could be on the wrong...

kinggravesIt's only a blessing because the chat rooms have been filled with porn bots for years. Porn bots that mysteriously get past the constant captchas. The mail service also seems to get a mysterious amount of spam, yet their spam filter only catches the mail that I want to get...

Jay hit my response on the money. 80C (176 F) is warm but not hot for electronics. Of course it sure feels hot to us! A system will shut down around 95-100C @CPU depending on the manufacturers calibration. As a standard HP laptop, the Heat sink is probably shared between the CPU & GPU, on...

I ask mostly because many laptops use lower resolution screens to keep cost down / make more efficient use of GPU scheme... To get a laptop with the 1080 screen is one challenge, with a good or great dedicated GPU another challenge. A few friends use thier laptop with an external monitor...

curious.. is your 1080 res request for the laptop screen, or are you planning on utilizing a separate monitor / tv? as others have stated, your laptop search should focus on the video card. Integrated graphics (intel 3000)will likely struggle to give decent frame rate on the external display...

The HP scanner should have come with a cd of software. If installed you can access the program in the start menu. There is a different exe for each function of the all in one unit. For scanning to the pc, you put the document in the scanner, and use the software for scanning, which will...

lamorpaNo it does not amplify the sound. That is physically impossible without an input of power. It may direct the sound and make it louder for listeners in the direction(s) it is facing. Pretty bad for a techie website. There is an amplification effect due to noise channeling and reverb...

for ubuntu, make sure you downloaded the correct installer, should be the x86 32bit version.

you could check dells site using the pcs service tag, assuming it is still readable and check product specs to see motherboard max ram and type, but its probably 128 pin pc100 or pc133. RAM system max is probably 500MB, as most laptops didn't have many slots back then and mobos didn't...

More information please, x64 which os? Windows? Linux? What version canon printer, if it is too old, there may not be x64 drivers available.

Could also be that the C: drive died, which is why the BIOS cant find it. Double check power and data cords to the hard drive. if BIOS doesn't see a hard drive installed, (if you cannot select the hard drive to boot from) the circuit board for the HDD is fried. If you have more than one hard...